Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. — James Russell Lowell. American poet and diplomat (1819–1891)
There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.